wish fulfillment

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noun

gratification of desires.
Psychoanalysis. the drive to free oneself from tension caused by instinctual needs, as sex.

Origin of wish fulfillment

First recorded in 1905–10

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Examples from the Web for wish fulfillment

Contemporary Examples of wish fulfillment

Cain might just be for conservatives what Barack Obama was for liberals in 2008—a kind of wish-fulfillment candidate.
Romney’s Worst Nightmare
Michael Tomasky
October 14, 2011

Historical Examples of wish fulfillment

Glance now, among these dreams, at a simple example of "wish-fulfillment."
The Ordeal of Mark Twain
Van Wyck Brooks
Wish-fulfillment has become that phrase for the new dream-science.
A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
So this is the second wish-fulfillment, but the wish is that of the husband.
A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
You also make use of this unpleasant state of mind to conceal the wish-fulfillment.
Dream Psychology
Sigmund Freud
It is in fact the wish-fulfillment that has already induced us to separate dreams into two groups.
Dream Psychology
Sigmund Freud

wish fulfillment in Medicine

wish fulfillment

[wĭsh]

n.

In psychoanalytic theory, the satisfaction of a desire, need, or impulse through a dream or other exercise of the imagination.

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